The crusader revival: Banning Jews from the heart of Jerusalem

By Shlomo Slonim, JPost— UN Security Council resolution 2334 of December 23, 2016 is designed to redivide Jerusalem and to stamp Israeli authority, currently exercised throughout the city, as illegal. In effect, it would put the Jewish Quarter, as well as the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, under Muslim authority, and make all Jewish…

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A Palestinian Jordan: Opportunities versus threats

BY MUDAR ZAHRAN, JPost— The concept of a Palestinian state in Jordan is not new. In fact, Jordan was created based on the Faisal-Weizmann agreement by which Jews agreed to give away 78 percent of the British Mandate for Palestine to the Hashemites to establish a homeland for the Palestinian Arabs. The Hashemites have never kept…

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A century to celebrate

By David Parsons, ICEJ— In the new year of 2017, we will pass several important milestones for Christians who support Israel. For instance, it has been 500 years since the start of the Protestant Reformation in October 1517, when Christians could read the Bible in their common languages once again and rediscovered that God still…

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Spot Report: “A top priority for Believers”

Think on this: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved…

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No one is vetting Syrian refugees for signs of antiSemitism

By Charles Jacobs, Jpost— Major Jewish establishment organizations are strenuously lobbying for the resettlement of Syrian refugees on American soil. It’s explained as a natural extension of Jewish values and history – “we, too, were refugees once. We, too, were the ‘other.’” The comparison is, to say the least, abstract. It ignores vast differences between…

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Over 70 Evangelical Leaders Meet With, Applaud Trump’s Israel Envoy Friedman

By JNS— Following a high-profile meeting with David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel, a group of more than 70 evangelical Christian leaders has issued a joint letter to the president expressing their enthusiastic support for Friedman’s candidacy. In the letter, the group expressed confidence that Trump “wisely selected a fellow…

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Pro-Israel Christians Rally Support for a US Embassy in Jerusalem

By Sean Savage, JNS— Aside from its centrality to Jewish peoplehood as the home of the ancient Jewish Temples and now the modern state of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem is also synonymous with Judaism for many Bible-reading Christians. As such, prominent pro-Israel Christian organizations are lining up to express their support for President Donald Trump’s promise…

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Promoting hostility as ‘peacemaking’

By Dexter Van Zile, Israel Hayom— Yusef Daher is the executive secretary of the Jerusalem Interchurch Center (JICC), an ecumenical peacemaking institution supported by the World Council of Churches. Daher is no peacemaker, however. He is instead an ideological and theological combatant in the ongoing effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. He uses his status…

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The Magnificent Ten

By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— A political document blamed by many for today’s Middle East crisis was motivated by the evangelical Christian faith of a uniquely international, cross-party, British war cabinet. This was the claim of Jerusalem-based Canadian Rev Dr David Schmidt in a London lecture marking the centenary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. This…

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Are we currently living in the Tribulation?

By Lamb and Lion Ministries— There are some Bible prophecy teachers out there who are teaching that we are currently living in the Tribulation. All the way back since World War 1, they claim, the prophetic judgments of Revelation have been pouring down upon the earth. Sadly, the only thing predictable about their predictions is…

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Trump says ‘chance’ he’ll move embassy, but admits there are ‘two sides’

By Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel— US President Donald Trump continued to back off his campaign pledge to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem in an interview aired Monday, saying the move was “not easy” and giving it no more than “a chance” of occurring. Trump’s repeatedly promised to move the embassy from Tel Aviv…

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Wisdom of heart and courage of compassion: A look back on the heroes of the Holocaust

By Dr Inna Rogatchi (C) Based on the speech at the Inaugual Opening of the Shining Souls. Champions of Humanity exhibition at The European Parliament – January 24, 2017, Brussels Between Wansee and Auschwitz At the time of the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017 at the European Parliament, on the initiative and…

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Netanyahu backs U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem though signals no urgency

By Jeffrey Heller | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support on Sunday for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem but mentioned no time frame, after a Republican activist accused Israel of pressing the Trump administration to delay the pledged step. In an interview with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Marc Zell, head of the Republicans Overseas…

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